Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Healthcare Provision: Discussion

2:00 am

Professor Deirdre Heenan:

May I very briefly go back to Ms Hanna's question on workforce challenges? If you speak to anyone in the north-west region, Derry and Donegal, they will say that the NHS is being hollowed out by the system in the Republic.

Terms and conditions are so much more favourable on this side of the Border that it is, of course, understandable that people will say they are going to leave the NHS because it does not look like it is getting any better in the short term, and are deciding to move and take their skills with them. Perhaps, the answer-----

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